Don Nickles: “May I ask the sponsor of the bill, doesn't this, in effect, provide for a 26-week extension of Federal unemployment…”

I do not defend 199, period. I think Congress--when you are rewriting the tax code, you should have a uniform corporate rate, not a lower rate for manufacturing.

We should not be giving advantages to our international competitors over our U.S.-based companies.

I was the principal sponsor of the Defense of Marriage Act, which passed and was signed into law by President Clinton in 1996. I heard my very good friend from Minnesota, Senator Dayton, mention that this is about politics, and I wanted to…

If you no longer allowed intangible drilling costs to be expensed, you would shut down the shale revolution.